2024 Ballarat Pinot Noir
$55.00
Vineyards
Sourced from two vineyards, 400m apart, at Scotsburn, 1.5 km from Mt Buninyong. The first is on a windswept ridge with 500-million-year-old Ordovician period soils. Part of an old seabed made up of clay and sandy quartz breccia, along with sandstone, mudstone, and siltstone. The second is planted in degraded volcanic soils from Mt Buninyong, between 50,000 to 80,000 years old. Locally known as chocolate soil, with approximately 35% basaltic gravel and rocks of various sizes. At 500m elevation, warm days are followed by cold nights that always ensure high levels of natural acidity.
Independent Reviews
"A medium, bright garnet. With its aromas of wild strawberry, black tea and star anise, this is more richly fruited and 'whole bunchy' on the nose than the '24. It's nicely concentrated on the compact and well-structured palate. This will need a little time to open up, which it will surely do over the next six to eight years."
94+ Points
Philip Rich - Halliday Wine Companion (21 April 2026)
"This wine leans heavily into savouriness – it has a distinctly autumnal feel – but its fruit still feels and tastes ripe and indeed it carries a juiciness throughout. Forest berry notes run into earth, undergrowth, dried leaves and sweet spices, with mint, white flowers, fennel and roasted nut notes presenting as highlights. It’s both sophisticated and more-ish at once, and intricately structured as well. In the end you can safely file this wine under Seriously Good."
94 points
Campbell Mattinson, campbellmattinson.com (April 2026)